Proletaire

(3 syl.). One of the rabble. Prolétaires in French means
the lowest and poorest class in the community. Proletarian, mean
or vulgar. The sixth class of Servius Tullius consisted of proletarii and the capite censi —i.e. breeders and
human heads. The proletaries could not enter the army,
but were useful as breeders of the race (proles). The capite
censi were not enrolled in the census by the value of their
estates, but simply by their polls.